Volume 8, Number 9 · May 18, 1967

Research

By Peter Wirth

In response to Blow-Up* (April 20, 1967)

To the Editors:

The phrase "the intense inane," quoted by Elizabeth Hardwick in her review of William Manchester's Death of a President, is not Poe's but Shelley's. It appears in the last line of Act Three of Prometheus Unbound: "Pinacled dim in the intense inane," where its use is by no means sardonic.

Peter Wirth

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts


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